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Definition of Pudibund
1. prudish [adj] - See also: prudish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pudibund
Literary usage of Pudibund
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"How could Ulysses, with such an excellent wife and such an amiable son, waste
time with Calypso and dangle after Circe, to whom the pudibund Rapin applies ..."
2. The Earlier Renaissance by George Saintsbury (1901)
"Let it be remembered that even Spenser himself shocks the pudibund nowadays,
though Spenser's morality and his religious fervour are absolutely beyond ..."
3. The Earlier Renaissance by George Saintsbury (1901)
"Let it be remembered that even Spenser himself shocks the pudibund nowadays,
though Spenser's morality and his religious fervour are absolutely beyond ..."
4. Old Provence by Theodore Andrea Cook (1905)
"... naked, and bending forward upon her right leg in the well-known provocatively
pudibund attitude. She, too, has more of the human than the divine, ..."
5. Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein, Samuel Harvey Taylor, Henry Hamilton Arnold (1875)
"... and pudens denote shame as an habitual feeling ; pudibund.us as a temporary
state of the sense of shame, ..."
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